Language guide

Uyghur Names: Meanings, Origins & Traditions

Uyghur names on this site are shown first in the Uyghur Arabic alphabet, written right to left, exactly as recorded in our sources, followed by the Latin romanization where a source gives one. Uyghur naming draws on native Turkic words (for example words for the moon, light or bravery) as well as a large stock of Arabic and Persian names and elements. Spellings in other scripts are never generated automatically.

ئۇيغۇرچە

Karluk branch of the Turkic language family

Published names: 6733
Scripts in our data: Latin, Arabic script
ISO 639-1: ug

Browse Uyghur names

312 names · page 1 of 13

Baba
“grandfather, father”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Babajan
“dear father, a son like a father”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Babaxan
“a son like a grandfather”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Babur
“an animal (lion); a kind of plant”
From Indic · Turkish, Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Badam
“name of a fruit”
From Turkic · Uyghur, Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Badamgül
“pretty as an almond blossom”
From Turkic and Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Baghdad
“the capital of Iraq”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Bahadir
“fearless, brave”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Tatar
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Baha'idin
“esteemed person of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Bahar
“spring (the season)”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Bahargül
“warm as spring”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Baharnisa
“spring among women”
From Persian and Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Bahawidin
“esteemed person of the faith”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Bahayidin
“esteemed person of the faith”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Bahir
“bright, colourful”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented

Bahire
“bright, colourful”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Bahtiyar
“lucky, fortunate, happy”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ba'in
“one who explains, expounds”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Ba'ine
“one who explains, expounds”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Baki
“everlasting, eternal”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Tatar
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Bakir
“morning, early; not yet of age”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Balahaji
“child, with the epithet Haji”
From Turkic and Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Baligh
“city, fortress; fish”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Balixan
“my khan child”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented

How Uyghur names are written

The Uyghur Arabic alphabet is the official script in Xinjiang. It writes all vowels, including ې, ۆ, ۈ and ئ-initial forms, which makes it closer to pronunciation than many other Arabic-based scripts. Uyghur Latin (ULY) is common online and in Western countries, and Uyghur Cyrillic is still used in Central Asia. Latin forms on this site are labelled with the system they follow.

Where Uyghur names come from

A name used in Uyghur is not automatically Uyghur in origin. Here is how the documented origins of the Uyghur names published so far break down (a name with elements from two languages counts under both):

Arabic
3157
Persian
1004
Turkic
873
Hebrew
45
European
11
Azerbaijani
5
Uyghur
5

Counted from 6733 published entries. Each name page explains its own etymology with sources.

Uyghur names by meaning

Uyghur belongs to the Karluk branch of the Turkic languages, together with Uzbek. Related languages share many words, but a name is listed under a language only when it is documented there.

Other languages: Turkish · Kazakh · Kyrgyz · Azerbaijani · Turkmen · Tatar · Bashkir · Tajik

References for this page

Wikipedia contributors. Turkic languages. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1377797900. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikipedia contributors. Uyghur alphabets. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1372619492. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.